Nature Quotes

Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen -; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.

Edgar Allan Poe
- Life
- World
- Nature
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Aristotle

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Patrick Henry
- God
- Power
- Strong
And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope
- Nature
- Free
- Fate
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

Ivan Turgenev
- Song
- Answer
- VIolin
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Past
- Smell
- Scent
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James E. Gunn
- People
- Character
- Science
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

D. H. Lawrence
- Nature
- Parents
- Unknown